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South Kearns Elementary, along with Bacchus and Beehive, will have a traditional nine-month school schedule starting in Fall 2012.
A final decision was laid down at the Granite Board of Education's Dec. 6 meeting regarding the much-discussed issue of year-round school schedules.
All of Granite's 14 year-round schools will finish the current school year as they are, and revert t...
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John Johnson surprised his sister Taylorsville High student Ashley Johnson (at right
In a world where human rights are disregarded daily, students at Bennion Jr. High are learning to respect each others' beliefs and customs.
Bennion is the first junior high in Utah to participate in the Face to Faith program. Run through the Tony Bl...
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Eisenhower Jr. High students and faculty broke a new world record on Dec. 2 by throwing nearly 2,000 pounds of marshmallows at each other. Group photo courtesy of Gary Nebeker, World Records for Schools photographer. Photo of students Zach Layton tackling Denise Fiack during the marshmallow fight courtesy of Michael Jackson.
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Donations helped provide Christmas for needy families at the Kearns Junior High Holiday store.
Taylorsville community members and many of their "friends"--the Facebook kind and otherwise--banded together in early October to give Plymouth Elementary School an incredible gift--$5,000 to fund class field trips.
The money came from an online cont...
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Members of the Marine Corps League Auxiliary Cpl. Robert M. Sawaya Unit visited Fremont Elementary School on Nov. 10 for a Veterans Day celebration, during which each side thanked the other for services given. Pictured are, from left, Matthew Wegesend, Jaric Minson, Ashleigh Camacho, Emily Johnson, U.S. Marine Corps Major LaMar Breshears, Seiji Spencer, Matthew Camacho, Principal Paul McCarty, Hannah Johnson, Will Spencer, Megan Valora, Andrew Valora, Matthew Valora and Unit President Donna Ferrozzo.
The idea that it takes a village to raise a child is a widely-accepted one. Thirty women have taken this idea to the next level by banding together to help support an entire school.
Mostly owners or employees of small businesses in Kearns, Taylorsvi...
During the holiday season, plenty of people are willing to contribute to charitable causes, but few realize how many causes are out there, or know where to start looking. Here are a few to choose from, involving local schools.
The Granite Education ...
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Students at Taylorsville Elementary received a challenge from Arcadia Elementary's reading specialist on Oct. 3, to see which school’s students can read more by the end of the year.
Taylorsville teen Jenny Schilling knows exactly what she wants to do with her life.
Over the summer, Jenny had the unique opportunity to attend a pre-vet program for high school students at Cornell University in upstate New York. This Juan Diego sen...
